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Fuzzy Logic Azentek in-car PC, first with Vista but not first in Australia
Fuzzy Logic Azentek in-car PC, first with Vista but not first in Australia | Azentek in-car PC, first with Vista but not first in Australia |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Friday, 24 October 2008 | |
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Page 4 of 4 One alternative to an in-car PC is buying a 7-inch non-touch LCD screen from Jaycar, Dick Smith or other electronics stores, and bolt it onto your dashboard, although the legality of that is something you’d have to check for yourself. Featured Whitepaper
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You can then put your phone in a universal phone suction-cap attachment, enjoy the “big screen” experience for email, web browsing, GPS, video calls, photos, music, video files and more, but rather than being powered by a regular computer, you have a smartphone as the brains, instead. You could forego the 7-inch screen altogether and just use your phone in one of those universal adaptors, although you’re then limited to the size of your screen. Ensure your 7-inch screen is connected to a vision switcher, and you can connect it up to a digital TV tuner that lives under the passenger front seat of your car, and connect a rear-view camera to the back, getting an auto-electrician to wire it up for you, and you can techno-customise your car at a much cheaper price than either the Gizmosis or the Azentek. You could also put your 7-inch screen on a folding mechanism so it’s folded down when you’re not in the car. Connect a Bluetooth keyboard and your front seat passenger can type emails, web addresses and more – just as with the Gizmosis or Azentek models, although both of those have several USB ports as well, letting you attach a wired keyboard if desired. You won’t be able to run desktop Windows programs with a smartphone, but you’ll have broadly similar functionality, if not a system as that looks as smooth as an in-car PC. With this solution you’ll also be omitting the ability to integrate with your car’s engine computer system. With the release of the Azentek in-car PC in Australia, following the Gizmosis, the in-car PC market has definitely come of age. The next few years will see rapid improvement, smoother interfaces and hopefully cheaper pricing, but if you want an in-car PC today, they’re available and will do virtually anything your desktop or laptop computer will do. In fact about the only thing they won’t do is drive the car itself – yet. Finally, while the price of in-car PCs is still high, they are now a reality for anyone that wants to buy one, and all the jokes about cars developing at the same rate as PCs, winding down your windows to reboot the car and Windows crashing on your in-car PC will get a new lease of life! |
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